Western Digital My Book Essential 2.0 500GB USB 2.0 External HDD???

duff916 · ‎02-04-2008

Does anyone know if the Western Digital My Book Essential 2.0 500GB USB 2.0 External HDD (Model: WDH1U5000N) works with the 60gig PS3?

And works as one single partition too... because i think it comes formated to FAT32 so it should be ready to go right out of the box?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136175&ATT=22-136-175&CMP=OTC-pr1c3watch&nm...

Thanks for any halp guys,

duff916

Kulczycky · ‎01-11-2007

Yes it will work...

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Govani · ‎04-26-2007

it will i have the same one and i have used it with me ps3 to do a back up and all that

SO IT WILL WORK

duff916 · ‎02-04-2008

Thanks for the help!!!!!!!!!

schmitty8225 · ‎12-12-2007

Bumping old thread :-D

I heard about some problem with these that after awhile they stop communicating with the PS3 and you have to disconnect/reconnect it to get it to communicate again. Is this true?

duff916 · ‎02-04-2008

I haven't had that problem at all. It worked right out of the box. I didn't even need to format it.

Maaz · ‎10-12-2006

yea i bought it and i love it sooo much.

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Tornado_Flame · ‎08-13-2008

How do you even know this works in the first place? And shouldn't you use SATA's instead of something different?

I have a questions... I was looking at a 320gig and the 500gig (too much space but totally kickas5), do you simply take out your HDD when it is turned off, and stick the new one in? How would transfer what you have currently to the new one? Are there any problems with the XMB and such or is that the internal memory of the PS3 itself...?

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Solar_Difusion · ‎03-10-2008

Hanzo_Hattori wrote:
How do you even know this works in the first place? And shouldn't you use SATA's instead of something different?

I have a questions... I was looking at a 320gig and the 500gig (too much space but totally kickas5), do you simply take out your HDD when it is turned off, and stick the new one in? How would transfer what you have currently to the new one? Are there any problems with the XMB and such or is that the internal memory of the PS3 itself...?

First of all, this thread is about an external drive, not an internal drive. The external drive needs to be using USB; it makes no difference if it is SATA or PATA (IDE).

To your question, though, yes, you just take out your drive when the system is shut down and disconnected, and stick in the new one.

You have to copy/backup everything before you do that though. no problem at all with xmb or memory. That stuff is separate from the harddrive. unless you've got a 40GB or new 80GB core, then you have to save the latest firmware update on a flash drive and have it ready for when the system asks you for it. What system do you currently have?